Ice cold water was dumped over Darko Rajakovic instead of champagne or sports drink to celebrate his first-ever win as a head coach in the NBA.
Dennis Schroder had 22 points and seven assists as Toronto fended off the Minnesota Timberwolves 97-94 on Wednesday in both teams' season opener. It was Schroder's first regular-season game with the Raptors and Rajakovic's first patrolling Toronto's sideline.
"I think Darko's been doing a great job since training camp, telling everybody to move the ball, ball movement, body movement, and I'm just glad we won the game." Rajakovic was hired on June 13 and the differences between his and Nurse's coaching philosophies were apparent by the end of Wednesday's first quarter.
"I liked it, but I thought we still needed to play faster," said Rajakovic, his hair still wet from the ice bath."There were moments that we were coming past half-court, and then we did not get into offence early enough and quickly enough.Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns each had a double-double for Minnesota . Edwards led with 26 points and 14 rebounds, Towns scored 19 with 10 boards, and Gobert had 15 points and 13 rebounds.
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